Stand-up comedy is something that you have to strive to do, multiple times a night, every night, to be good.
I always knew it’d be difficult to balance the right of privacy and the right of free speech. I think that is a tension that we’ve seen in court case after court case and law after law. And we always strive to find that right balance.
Our cast and crew strive for this show after show hard as they can. It shows in the finished product.
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.
I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
My kids are the reason I continue to strive for something better. They know – as kids who are Muslim, Somali, black Americans – that they’ve always been part of a struggle and that change isn’t easy.
I know perfection in this game is very hard to do and pretty much impossible, but it’s what I strive for because I think it’s what you should do as a quarterback and as a leader.
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.
Certainly, I don’t believe in rebellion for its own sake. But I think if you strive to do something in an individualistic way, you just become a rebel by definition.
People strive for success, but it’s very lonely at the top. Now I realise the ultimate prize is a family.
I have to play hard and at the end of the day I still have to strive to protect myself and so does everybody in the league.
We should strive to be the most sophisticated and efficient platform for the world to do business with the mainland and for Chinese enterprises to be connected with the world.
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
If I have a centre back giving me stick, I want to score and say, ‘shut your mouth!’ It makes me strive, man.
You have to always continue to strive no matter how hard things get, no matter how troubled you feel. No matter how tough things get, no matter how many times you lose, you keep trying to win.
Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I’ve learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity.
Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
As human beings, it is natural for us to pick up signals about what is valued in our environment and to want to embody those values. But being superior and infallible isn’t something to strive for. Those values do not encourage people to do what is good for their organization in the long run.
The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive to have our hearts changed.
I’ve been through a lot of things in my personal and family life. That turned me into a fighter. I always strive to be the best I possibly can.
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
In San Francisco, we strive to be a beacon of progressivism for the rest of the country and the world, whether it is leading the way on gay marriage, immigrants rights, or combating climate change.
You should strive to govern by being as inclusive as possible.
Some really good players are coming out of county cricket. Better preparation, and looking after yourself physically are things that counties should still have to strive for. Also, the volume of county cricket is still far too high. I’d definitely like less county cricket.
The ebulliently sharp mind of ‘White Christmas’ director Walter Bobbie made me tremble and strive in the same breath. The deceptively ‘simple’ dialogue of David Ives, asking every actor to just. say. it. Float it on the breeze; it doesn’t need ‘explanation,’ just energy and truth.
The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
I find little things that drive me sometimes, but again, I’m already a driven person, and just because I strive for perfection on a personal level and don’t really care what other people say or do. I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.
I always strive to make my music unique.
Integrity is something I strive for in every part of my life.
I don’t know what my calling is, but I want to be here for a bigger reason. I strive to be like the greatest people who have ever lived.
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It’s too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
People who own property feel a sense of ownership in their future and their society. They study, save, work, strive and vote. And people trapped in a culture of tenancy do not.
I get asked a lot if I’d want to get into live-action movies, and the answer, honestly, is ‘no.’ I’m an illustrator, and I think animation is an extension of that way of expressing myself. That’s not to say I’d never make a live-action movie, but I don’t strive for it.
Sadly, in any industry and in any work-related environment, females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection, whether that be skinny or pretty. It’s a constant, in our society.
Don’t strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.
It’s time for political leaders across the ideological spectrum to realize that, while partisanship is understandable, hyper-partisanship is destructive to our country. We need more visionary leaders who will earnestly strive for bipartisanship and finding policy solutions that can move America forward.
Being ambitious, driven, and passionate can sometimes come at a cost and warp our sense of perspective: when we constantly work and strive to be better, we can find ourselves dwelling on mistakes of the past or putting pressure on what we’ll do in the future, rather than living in the present.
If you want to strive toward something, just listen to John Bonham.
Fitness, for me doesn’t mean a bikini body or a size zero. I just strive to be and feel healthy.
My beloved brethren, why do you not rise together with me against the malignants? Why do you not stand up with me to oppose those who work iniquity? Do you not know how that God will scatter the bones of those who strive to oppress Him? They shall be confounded, because the Lord hath despised them.
Quite simply, my friends inspire me to strive.
I don’t want to take names, but there are some people who get everything served on a platter. This is a movie, this is your role, and you have to do it. Some people have to strive so hard to reach where they have and want to.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
As the publisher of the ‘Tory,’ I strive to defend the pillars of Western civilization against the distractions of diversity.
So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed for the whole, and are unique.
Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
You can’t start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
On occasion we need to make a second effort – and a third effort, and a fourth effort, and as many degrees of effort as may be required to accomplish what we strive to achieve.
Ambition is your inner voice that tells you you can and should strive to go beyond your circumstances or station in life.
The most important thing for me is the thing I strive for. But I also hope when I play my songs for people – adult, children, mostly children – that they feel mighty, they feel noble, they feel like warriors. And they feel like they can do anything in the world because that’s how I feel.
In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted, if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
A lot of people will say they strive and drive to be the best in the industry and I get that, but for me, I think I’m just pushing to be the best version of myself that I can be.
To be challenged means to strive. I’m almost certain that’s true.
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
I want people to feel inspired. I want people to feel good. I want people to feel something. I want people to strive for what they want in their life, and I want them to heal from anything that’s hurting them.
Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.
